Park Lane Mall, originally Park Lane Centre, was a shopping center in

Reno, Nevada Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the c ...

, at South Virginia Street and Plumb Lane. It cost $10 million to build and opened in phases in 1965–1967 as an open-air mall with of gross leasable area. As it grew, became the leading area mall. Original architects were

Victor Gruen Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum
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Associates and

Charles Luckman Charles Luckman (May 16, 1909 – January 26, 1999) was an American businessman, property developer, and architect known for designing landmark buildings in the United States such as the Theme Building, Prudential Tower, Madison Square Garden, ...

Associates. At the main opening ceremonies on March 9, 1967, it had 23 stores, with anchors:
Full-line department stores:''Reno Evening Gazette'', March 8, 1967, pp. 6, 8, 45 ff.
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Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began ...

, opened in 1965 before the rest of the mall, – 3 times the size of its store in Downtown Reno *

Weinstock's Weinstock's, originally Weinstock, Lubin, and Co., was an American department store chain headquartered in Sacramento, California. It was founded by Harris Weinstock and his half-brother, David Lubin. The chain was purchased by Hale's in 1949, ...

department store that (not part of the 23 stores open in March 1967; it opened in Summer 1967) – three floors, , air-conditioned, decorated in Portuguese marble at ground level Specialty department stores: *

Roos/Atkins Roos/Atkins was the name of a chain of upscale men's clothing stores based in San Francisco, California. It was formed through a 1957 merger of the Robert Atkins and Roos Brothers clothiers. The chain expanded after World War II to include severa ...

, a San Francisco-based clothing retailer with roots in

Virginia City, Nevada Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county. The city is a part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area. Virginia City developed as a boomt ...

(, closed 1981) *

Joseph Magnin The Joseph Magnin Company was a high-end specialty department store founded in San Francisco, California, by Joseph Magnin, 4th son of Isaac Magnin founder of the I. Magnin department store. Joseph Magnin Co. and I. Magnin Co. were rivals. His ...

, (, opened early in November 1966) The rest of the specialty stores or "main mall", was completed in 1967. By the mid-1990s, Sears, Weinstocks, and Joseph Magnin had closed, and its competitor

Meadowood Mall Meadowood Mall is a one-level, super-regional mall in Reno, Nevada, managed by Simon Property Group, which owns 50% of it. Meadowood Mall contains 125 retailers and restaurants and it is anchored by Macy's Women, Macy's Men/Home, JCPenney, and D ...

, more than double its size, had taken over as the city's most popular mall. ParkLane added

Gottschalks Gottschalks (former NYSE ticker symbol GOT) was a middle-tier American department store that operated 58 department stores and three specialty apparel stores in six western states (California, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada); some ...

department store and a new movie theater, but continued in decline until closing in January 2007. The mall stood empty until Reno Land bought it after the Great Recession. The site is to be used for a new mixed-use project, Reno Experience District with a mix of 1,300 luxury apartments, a 170-room hotel, more than of retail space, a market hall with a coworking loft, a tech campus of , and a park.

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